1. World War 2 Late 40s through early 60s “The Greatest Generation”
“Silent Generation”
“Uncommitted Generation”
“Years of Repose”

2. OR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh2ZoMPBUwo OR

3. Video clips are in DVD used in “Pop Culture, cont.” lesson”

6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfhYdoVQSJA&feature=related 2:50

7. Big Business 100 corporations had 70% of all output
Conglomerate: major corporation controlling smaller companies
AT&T, GE, GM, IBM
“What’s good for General Motors is good for the country”
White-collar jobs surpassed blue-collar jobs
Change from industrial to post-industrial era
A few big networks and ad agencies

9. Franchise: entrepreneurial company with similar products in many locations

10. Consumerism Credit cards From 8 to 4,000 shopping malls
“Never before have so many owed so much to so many”
From 8 to 4,000 shopping malls
Planned obsolescence

13. Wham-O

15. Chuck Taylor Converse All Star

16. Commuting businessmen from suburbs feel dissatisfied

17. Employees are “company people”; conformity rewarded, creativity lost
Shift in dominant American personality – more focus on being liked than being independent

18. In The Lonely Crowd, David Riesman argued that
A) Americans were becoming too concerned about what others thought of them
B) the “military-industrial complex” was dominating American values
C) elderly Americans were being ignored by the government
D) the plight of Native Americans should become a major focal point of American politics

19. The development of large-scale organizations and bureaucracies resulted in
A) a new generation of self-reliant individuals eager to work within the organizations
B) a group of young poets, artists, and writers generally known as the “beats,” who praised the new developments and their effect on society
C) an increase in the number of white-collar workers to the point where they outnumbered blue-collar laborers for the first time
D) a major decline in people who enjoyed television

20. Ridiculed mass-produced suburbs as “homogeneous, postwar Hell”

21. “the key figure in all suburbia”
“home manager, hostess, mother, civic worker – all while preserving her figure”
“isolated, bored, unfulfilled”

22. “Pink-collar ghetto”

24. the “Baby Boom” was the upsurge in the birth rate between 1941 and 1963; the exact beginning date is debated in the range of
Like a “pig passing through a python”

27. UNIVersal Automatic Computer

28. Dr. Drew and Blood Banks
Dr. Salk and Polio Vaccine

29. The “jet age” started with the 707, after its first flight on July 15, Since then, Boeing introduced the 727, 737, 747, 757, 767, 777 and 787 Dreamliner. Of these, only the 707, 727 and 757 are no longer in production.

31. Key Themes
Commercial Success
Individualism (pioneer)
Trendsetter

33. Rock and Roll “Race” music “Covers” “Crossover” hits
Origin of genre’s name
movement of a ship at sea (rocking fore and aft and rolling side to side)
spiritual fervor
sexual analogy

34. “Tutti Frutti” by Little Richard 1955
Original lyrics, “Tutti Frutti, good booty” were too controversial, so replaced with “Tutti Frutti, all rooty!” (slang for "all right”)
Pat Boone
Little Richard

35. “Louie, Louie” by Richard Berry 1956
A school district superintendent in Michigan banned the high school band from playing it.
“The lyrics are raunchy.”
In early 60s, the FBI spent two years investigating the lyrics before finding them “unintelligible at any speed.”
The Kingsmen
Richard Berry

36. Elvis Presley’s “That’s All Right”
Ike Turner’s Kings of Rhythm with “Rocket 88” in 1951 
Big Joe Turner’s “Shake, Rattle and Roll”

37. Alan “Moondog” Freed Father of Rock and Roll
“My Baby Rocks Me with a Steady Roll”
“A river that has absorbed many streams”
Promoted African-American artists
Live concerts with racially mixed audiences
"rock and roll is a river of music that has absorbed many streams: rhythm and blues, jazz, rag time, cowboy songs, country songs, folk songs
"father of rock'n'roll" due to his promotion of the style of music, and his introduction of the phrase "rock and roll", in reference to the musicalgenre, on mainstream radio in the early 1950s. He helped bridge the gap of segregation among young teenage Americans, presenting music by African-American artists (rather than cover versions by white artists) on his radio program, and arranging live concerts attended by racially mixed audiences

38. Elvis Presley provided the sex appeal

39. Bill Haley and His Comets
“Rock Around the Clock”
The first to achieve big commercial success

41. All of the following artists are African-Americans who have had vast influence on popular music except
A) Big Joe Turner
B) Chuck Berry
C) Bill Haley
D) Little Richard

42. Origins of Rock and Roll

43. Song / Artist
Themes / main points
Treasure or Trash?

44. “Hound Dog” Elvis on Ed Sullivan Show
“Tutti Frutti” Little Richard
“Tutti Frutti” Pat Boone
“Louie Louie”
“Hound Dog” Big Mama Thornton
“Hound Dog” Elvis on Ed Sullivan Show
“Shake, Rattle, and Roll” Big Joe Turner
“Shake, Rattle, and Roll” Elvis

45. “Rocket 88” Ike Turner “That’s All Right” Elvis
“Rocket 88” Ike Turner
“Rock Around the Clock” Bill Haley and His Comets
“Maybellene” Chuck Berry
start at 0:45

46. The Day the Music Died February 3, 1959
Phrase from Don McLean’s 1971 song “American Pie”
The Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, and Richie Valens died
in plane crash in Iowa
The Big Bopper
(J.P. Richardson)
Charles “Buddy” Holly
Ritchie Valens

47. “Peggy Sue” Buddy Holly
“La Bamba” Richie Valens
“Chantilly Lace” Big Bopper
The Day the Music Died: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big
6 mins
The Meaning of Don McLean’s “American Pie”
4:05